And a car, like a piano, that's being sold at $300 is basically on its last legs. All that 600 bucks does is maybe render the car a little bit more reliable for the immediate future, but the car itself ain't gonna last any longer than it's gonna last. If you buy an old junker car for $300, does investing a further $600 in fixing it up extend the life of the car? No, it does not. For pianos at this stage of their career ('beatup old upright'), they usually have other things wrong with them inside, in the 'action', that require expen$ive rebuilds to make right.Ī piano is very similar to a car. If it's such an old beatup piano that it has seven broken keys, it's pretty much at the end of its existence. It won't 'extend the life of your piano'-it doesn't work like that.

I hope this doesn't come across the pixels like I'm yelling at you, 'cause that's not my intention.Įven spending another 600 bucks to get it fixed is too much. It would cost tens of thousands of dollars to rebuild them, and the sad fact is, with beatup old uprights, nobody cares. There are nice old pianos that get sent to the landfill because they just can't hold a tune anymore, and it doesn't signify that they may be a hundred years old and full of 'history'. A piano is not a piece of antique furniture that accrues value merely by being old. Get a piano that works right and sounds nice-don't worry about its 'history', because the painful truth is that it doesn't matter. And-there are hundreds of thousands of virtually identical beatup old uprights all over the country, mainly in church Sunday School rooms and in music department practice rooms, and their age and 'history' doesn't count for squat there. Unfortunately, with pianos, 'history' doesn't count for much. It looks like a nice old piano with some history.

Piano mehlin sons